How did Nazis use Language and …

(i) Nazi propaganda effectively created a hatred for Jews through language and media with care. The Nazis coined deceptive terms to describe their various killing practices against Jews.

(ii) Mass killings were termed special treatment, final solution (for the Jews), euthanasia (for the disabled), selection and disinfections, and evacuation (deporting people to gas chambers).

(iii) The gas chambers where Jews were killed were called ‘disinfection-areas’.

(iv) Media was carefully used to popularise Nazi ideas through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy slogans and leaflets.

(v) In posters, Jews were projected as the ‘enemies’ of Germans. They were stereotyped, mocked, abused and described as evil.

(vi) Socialists and liberals were shown as weak, degenerate and malicious foreign agents.

(vii) Propaganda films such as The Eternal Jew were made to create hatred for Jews.